Emotional Freedom Technique

Sometimes our "stuckness" is the result of old ways of thinking, thoughts that were imbedded into our minds as a result of events that were totally out of our control. We have long since gotten over them, but they somehow still
  have a hold on us in ways that are most surprising.

  This is where EFT comes into play.

My first exposure to EFT left me feeling rather confused, but the more I looked into it and actually practiced it,
I found the results fascinating.

    Continue reading below to learn more...
 

A note on EFT’s surprising physical healings

EFT stands for...Emotional Freedom Technique

EFT was originally designed to shorten the recovery time for some major phycological conditions. It has been shown to reduce therapy time from months or years down to minutes or hours.....really?....really!

Along the way, it kept being noticed that profound physical healings were also taking place. Vision improved, headaches disappeared, cancer pains and symptoms subsided and so on. The reason for this is that EFT addresses causes that some healing practices overlooked. Conventional Medicine, for example, pays very little attention to disruptions in the body’s energy meridians nor does it give much weight to emotional causes. These causes, of course, are the centerpiece of EFT. Thus it is no wonder that EFT produces benefits that are sometimes instantaneous and lasting when pharmaceutical treatment has lacked a lasting cure. The reason is simply because we are taking aim at causes that others have largely disregarded.

The body's energy system

Our bodies have a profound electrical nature. Any beginning course in anatomy covers this. Shuffle your feet across a carpet and then touch an item made of metal. Sometimes you can see the static electricity that is discharged from your fingertip. This wouldn't be possible unless your body had an electrical nature to it. If you touch a hot stove you will feel the pain instantly because it is electrically transmitted along the nerves to your brain. The pain travels at the speed of electricity and that is why you feel pain so quickly.

Electrical messages are constantly sent throughout your body to keep it informed of what is going on. Without this energy flow you would not be able to see, hear, feel, taste or smell. Another obvious bit of evidence regarding the existence of electricity (energy) in the body are the electroencephalograph (EEG) and electrocardiograph (EKG). The EEG records the electrical activity of the brain and the EKG records the electrical activity of the heart. These devices have been used by medical science for decades and are the ones you see in TV hospital dramas hooked up to dying patients. When the screen stops "blipping" the patient is dead. Our electrical systems are vital to our physical health. What could be more obvious? When the energy stops flowing....we die. Ask your doctor about this. No one disputes it. In fact, civilization has known about this for millenniums.

About 5,000 years ago, the Chinese discovered a complex system of energy circuits that run throughout the body. These energy circuits, or meridians as they are called, are the centerpiece of Eastern health practices and form the basis for modern day acupuncture, acupressure and a wide variety of other healing techniques. This energy courses through the body and is invisible to the eye. It cannot be seen without high tech equipment. By analogy, you do not see the energy flowing through a TV set either. You know it is there however, by its effects. The sounds and pictures are your ever present evidence that the energy flow exists. In the same way, EFT gives you striking evidence that energy flows within your body because it provides the effects that let you know it is there.

By simply tapping near the end points of your energy meridians you can experience some profound changes in your emotional and physical health. These changes would not occur if there was no energy system. Western medical science tends to focus on the chemical nature of the body and has not paid much attention to these subtle, but powerful, energy flows until recent years. However, they do exist and are attracting an expanding group of researchers.

The above information was gathered in part from Gary Craig's EFT website, www.emofree.com.

If you care to do more research you can read the following for more details:

**Becker, Robert O. and Selden, Gary. The Body Electric. Morrow, NY, 1985

**Becker, Robert O. Crosscurrents. Tarcher, NY, 1992

**Burr, H.S. Blueprint for immortality: the electric patterns of life. Neville Spearman, London, 1972

**Nordenstrom, B. Biologically closed electric circuits: clinical, experimental and theoretical evidence for an
  additional circulatory system. Nordic, Stockholm, 1983.

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